EXCLUSIVE – Sarah Palin told WWN’s Frank Lake that she is running for President in 2012!

EXCLUSIVE – Sarah Palin told WWN’s Frank Lake that she is running for President in 2012!

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, is starting her national bus tour on Sunday. Embedded on her bus is WWN’s Frank Lake. Palin shocked major media outlets when, in a private interview with Frank, she said she is “absolutely running for President of the United States in 2012.”

“And I’m going to kick Barack Obama’s butt!” Palin said.

The bus tour, officially launches her Presidential bid. It starts on Sunday in Washington at the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally and will work its way north along the East Coast. The Presidential candidate will visit other parts of the country later, stopping at symbolically important sites in the nation’s history.

Palin advisers told Frank Lake that she will stop in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina – on the bus tour.

The bus tour will include a stop in New Hampshire. Tim Crawford, Palin’s campaign manager declined to give more details. He would only say, “She wants to get people fired up about her running for President.”

Palin told Frank Lake that she wants to win in November. Lake told her that the election isn’t until 2012. “Oh, well, I will win then, too. I will win every year. This is America. You can do anything!” Palin said.

On her web site, Palin wrote: “I’ve said many times that America doesn’t need a ‘fundamental transformation,’ instead we need a restoration of all that is good and strong and free in America! So, I am running for President of the United States in 2012.”